President-elect Donald Trump has announced Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as his pick for Secretary of State, marking an end to the four-week search for someone to fill the high-profile position. Tillerson, 64, has spent his entire career with Exxon Mobil, starting out as a production engineer in 1975 and holding a number of prominent
Norbert Hofer, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), has conceded defeat to his Green party-supported opponent, Alexander Van der Bellen, as early exit polls suggest a win for the 71-year-old economist. At the time of writing, results show Van der Bellen leading Hoffer by 53.5 percent to 46.4 percent, with little expected to
Donald Trump took to twitter last night to defend his decision to take a call from the President of Taiwan, a state with whom the U.S. has not had diplomatic ties for 38 years. It is the first time that a U.S. president or president-elect has made state level contact with Taiwan since President Jimmy
The encounter between Tomi Lahren, the 24-year-old shooting star of conservative commentary , and Trevor Noah was billed as a bubble-bursting exercise that allowed Lahren to step out of her own echo chamber and into the largely liberal talking shop that is The Daily Show . Tomi Lahren has made a name for herself as